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Another word for insignificance

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Noun

  1. Lack of importance

    See also:

    concern

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Another word for insignificance

Noun
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Sentence Examples

  • One after another they hasten to display their insignificance before him.

  • The insignificance of the Jewish community in Palestine was their salvation.

  • Danby therefore ordered a return from every diocese of the numbers of dissenters, both Romanist and Protestant, in order by a proof of their insignificance to remove the royal scruples.3 In December 1676 he issued a proclamation for the suppression of coffee-houses because of the "defamation of His Majesty's Government" which took place in them, but this was soon withdrawn.

  • One moment, he was a speck of nothing in this vastness that defined his insignificance; another, this whole world was his.

  • The comparative insignificance of Ireland in the case of the wheat and barley crops, represented by 2 and 8% respectively, receives some compensation when oats and potatoes are considered, about one-fourth of the area of the former and more than half that of the latter being claimed by Ireland.

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